NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3994, 21 December 1891, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

enSsh London, A shipping oxchangCWr'* been formed in London and lowmg com* paniea trading with Australia hare joined. / The London Corporation has voted a sum of £2600 to purchase a present for the Duke of Clarence and Avon" dale on tho occasion of his marriage. £ 18th. Prince George is*in a fair way of recovery.and rapidly gaining strength. Persistent rumours are afloat that the Government intend to recommend to Parlument that a grant of £15,000 a year should be made to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. A strong syndicate has been formed to pump water from tho Darling river to the Proprietary mine at Broken Hill, and to connect Stephen'* Creek with tbe scheme or the minedirect. Machinery capable of raising 1,000,000 gallons of sftter daily will be complete in 15 months. The late Mr Robert Algar Nowton, auctioneer, has bequeathed the sum of £115,000 to London oharitios. A packet of dynamite has been discovered in the Dublin post office. Mr Muagrovo his engaged M. Marius, actor, to" accompany lire Bernard Boereon her Australian tour. Mr Barton, Conservative, has been elected for tbe vacancy in tbe MidArmagh Division in tho House of Commons, created by the death of Sir Porter Corry. Baron de Worms, Political Secretary, Colonial Office, addressing a meeting at Eastbourne, condemned Lord Carriagton'a strictures 00 the Colonial Office., as roost inaccurate and misleading, and showing astound* ing ignorance, „ •■